Date: Mon, 07 Jul 2014 10:12:07 +0200 From: Hans Petter Selasky <hps@selasky.org> To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Subject: [RFC] Allow m_dup() to use JUMBO clusters Message-ID: <53BA5657.8010309@selasky.org>
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This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------030007040205090607060001 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi, I'm asking for some input on the attached m_dup() patch, so that existing functionality or dependencies are not broken. The background for the change is to allow m_dup() to defrag long mbuf chains that doesn't fit into a specific hardware's scatter gather entries, typically when doing TSO. In my case the HW limit is 16 entries of length 4K for doing a 64KByte TSO packet. Currently m_dup() is at best producing 32 entries of each 2K for a 64Kbytes TSO packet. By allowing m_dup() to get JUMBO clusters when allocating mbufs, we avoid creating a new function, specific to the hardware, to defrag some rare-occurring very long mbuf chains into a mbuf chain below 16 entries. Any comments? --HPS --------------030007040205090607060001 Content-Type: text/x-patch; name="uipc_mbuf.c.diff" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="uipc_mbuf.c.diff" === uipc_mbuf.c ================================================================== --- uipc_mbuf.c (revision 268358) +++ uipc_mbuf.c (local) @@ -917,7 +917,15 @@ struct mbuf *n; /* Get the next new mbuf */ - if (remain >= MINCLSIZE) { + if (remain >= MJUM16BYTES) { + /* + * By allocating a bigger mbuf, we get fewer + * scatter gather entries for the hardware to + * process: + */ + n = m_getjcl(how, m->m_type, 0, MJUM16BYTES); + nsize = MJUM16BYTES; + } else if (remain >= MINCLSIZE) { n = m_getcl(how, m->m_type, 0); nsize = MCLBYTES; } else { --------------030007040205090607060001--
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